A major milestone for disruptive payments platform�Dwolla: the company has just switched on FiSync, its real-time money transfer system which aims to replace the outdated – and much slower – ACH process. ACH, or Automated Clearing House, is the traditional means for making electronic payments here in the United States. A 40-year old system, ACH enables money to move from Bank A to Bank B, but the transactions take two to five days to complete. FiSync basically blows that system up, offering banks, credit unions and service providers access to a real-time alternative.Dwolla announced the updated FiSync integration for financial institutions back in March, and is only a few days b[...]

Happy Friday, nerdosaurus! Twitter was blowing up this week when LeVar Burton made a surprise appearance at WWDC to announce …Well, we can’t tell you exactly what he’s announcing just yet, but we did get the full story from Mr. Burton himself. Here’s a sneak peek from that interview, as well as a wrap-up from WWDC.We’ll be showing you the rest of our full interview with LeVar “Don’t Call Me Geordi” Burton next week.In the meantime, here’s our full roundup of WWDC news in text and pictures. Also this week, we covered some crazy news about a new version of Google Chrome for Windows 8.Finally, don’t forget to pick up your tickets f[...]

The Muppet Theory has been making the rounds of late, most recently on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday. As detailed by Slate.com reporter Dahlia Lithwick, it holds that everyone can be categorized as a Chaos Muppet or an Order Muppet.Chaos Muppets are “out-of-control, volatile,” she wrote in Slate earlier this month. � Their ranks, include�Cookie Monster, Ernie, Gonzo and?especially?Animal. In the real world, Lithwick, who covers the U.S. Supreme Court, puts Justices�Stephen Breyer�and Antonin Scalia both in the Chaos Muppet camp.On the flip side, there are the Order Muppets– the Berts, Sam the Eagles, Kermit the Frogs of the world. They are regimented, averse to sur[...]